LAHORE: The Lahore district administration on Saturday denied permission to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to hold a public rally in the provincial capital, scheduled to take place on Sunday (today) in connection with Punjab Assembly elections.
A team Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders held a meeting with the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Lahore to seek permission for public rally on Sunday. However, the deputy commissioner refused to grant PTI permission, citing the ongoing HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches.
The Lahore administration also warned of imposing Section 144 if the ‘party does not postpone the rally’.
‘Will lead election rally tomorrow in Lahore’
Earlier in the day, former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan announced he would lead a public rally tomorrow (Sunday) in connection with election campaign, launched for upcoming general elections in Punjab.
چئیرمین عمران خان نے کل لاہور میں الیکشن ریلی نکالنے کا اعلان کر دیا- pic.twitter.com/NvdK1MnVFD
— PTI (@PTIofficial) March 11, 2023
“I will lead the election rally on Sunday (today) at 2pm to show them [the government] that we are not domesticated animals,” Imran Khan said while addressing the party workers and supporters via video link. He directed the party workers and supporters to prepare for the ‘election campaign’.
The PTI chief warned that the incumbent government will do anything to ‘run away’ from the elections, reiterating his claim of another assassination attempt on him or an explosion.
“They [the incumbent rulers] want to kill me as they are afraid of the sea of people,” he said, vowing to fight ‘till the last drop of blood’.
The former premier strongly criticized the caretaker Punjab government and police for ‘killing’ the PTI worker – Ali Bilal aka Zille Shah – and terming the death ‘road accident’.
Referring to PTI worker Ali Bilal’s death, Imran Khan accused the Punjab caretaker government of covering up Zille Shah’s death, and urged the Lahore High Court (LHC) to constitute a judicial commission to probe the matter.
He strongly criticised the law enforces for ‘torturing Zille Shah in custody, saying that he could not believe ‘what they [police] did to a special person’.
PTI Chairman @ImranKhanPTI talks about the dedicated worker Shaheed Ali Bilal #ظل_شاہ_کو_انصاف_دو pic.twitter.com/ifJNm4fVgJ
— PTI (@PTIofficial) March 11, 2023
The former prime minister alleged that there were at least 64 marks on Bilal’s body, which he said was indication that torture was inflicted on him.
He also criticised Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, saying that an ‘absconder’ was making the country’s decisions while sitting in London. “The court had declared him a national criminal”, he added.
Punjab polls
The Election Commission of Pakistan has announced the election schedule for the general elections in Punjab. “Polling for the election of Punjab provincial assembly will be held on April 30,” the election commission announced.
According to the election schedule, candidates could submit their nomination papers from March 12 to 14, while scrutiny of the papers will be held on March 22.
The candidates could withdraw their nomination papers up to April 05 and election symbols to candidates will be allotted on April 06, the ECP announced.
It is pertinent to mention here that President Dr Arif Alvi announced April 30 as the date for elections in Punjab.
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